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¶ … print are considered by many technology and environmental enthusiasts to be outdated, archaic and simply not as efficient as modern e-readers like Apple's I Pad. The question arises however as to, what if any environmental impact the substitution of books for E-readers has? This question is explored by Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris of the NY Times in their article titled How Green Is My iPad. To find the answer to this question the authors turned to a life cycle assessment which evaluates and measures what ecological impact a product has. Essentially the authors wanted to find out what was the most environmentally friendly, or in other words the "greenest way to read." If this question is posed to an average person, that person might simply say, without hesitation that the most environmentally friendly way to read is by employing the technology of and E-reader. That question if more complicated than it appears due to the implications...
The authors in this article do a good job of exploring and debating the sometimes unseen or ignored aspects of producing, manufacturing, selling and delivering the actual product in to the hands of a consumer. These aspects are compared to the use of actual print books and the results are surprising, interesting and enlightening. Enthusiasts and fans of E-readers might assume that the competition to determine what is more environmentally friendly between traditional books and modern E-pads, would not be even moderately a close race. The authors do a great job of challenging the notion that modern technology is always more environmentally friendly. We all have heard the old adage that "saving paper saves tree," and therefore we believe that we save the environment by not using paper. What needs to be understood is that trees are only a small part of the environment; there are other…
Works Cited
Goleman, Danie, and Gregory Norris. "How Green Is My iPad." NY Times [New York] 4 Apr. 2010. Print.
IPad & Macbook Air Marketing Analysis In an economy that is still considered dismal by many, the marketing strategies of successful companies are viewed as guideposts by competitors who wish to both break into the market and maintain a significant presence. In viewing the branding tactics used by Apple for products such as the iPAD and MacBook Air, one can see the tactics used to not only brand these products in
IPad -- a Greener Option? There is much debate on whether the iPad is a greener option than printed books. Where some believe that iPad is the greener option, some still believe print books are still the better option, especially when borrowed from a public library that spreads the carbon footprint over an entire community. Print books use 8.85 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per book, but only when being produced.
Potentially, this changes the way profit is used to build a larger network of computer users who now wish to harness the power of technology to develop a new world. Chapter: 9 Socioeconmics Berlin Wall Falls/Soviet Union Collapses Citation: Koeller, D. (2003), Fall of the Berlin Wall. WebChron. URL: http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/world/berlinwallfall.rev.html Tags: Political innovation, political/social upheaval, modernism in Europe Summation: By the end of 1989, the Soviet-backed regimes of Eastern Europe no longer existed and the
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